ON A NEW SPECIES OF BOEA FROM NEW GUINEA. 847 
long, 4 in, broad at the middle, flexible, thinly finely lepidote. 
Beduncl shorter than the leaves; bract-leaves small. _ Inflorescence 
reaching to the tip of the bract. Corolla and capsule not seen. 
Hab. South Brazil, Boog! (Herb. Hooker), Allied to 7. 
flexuosa 
(To be continued.) 
ON A NEW SPECIES OF BOFA FROM NEW GUINEA. 
By H. O. Forses, A.L.S., F.R.G.S. 
On page 14 of jac oa part of his ‘ Descriptive Notes on 
Papuan Plants,’ on Mueller identifies a species of Boea 
tions I have not seen, as I have very few botanical works by me 
here. To me, who have seen both plants in their natural habitat, 
there cannot be a moment's hesitation in as signing them to 
markedly different species. For the Astrolabe specimen I propose 
the name B. Lawesii, after its first gatherer, the well-known head 
e two f t 
become shrubby ; the Papuan is low and procumbent.. In foliage 
ere is a wide difference, but the most marked divergences 
appear in the inflorescence, whose teat in the Sumatran form 
are very cone The Papuan B. Lawesii is nati related 
to the Celebesian B. Minahasse Teys. (Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 297), 
if T recall that fein vividly enough. 
[We forwarded Mr. Forbes’ note to Mr. C. B. Clarke, who has 
since inspected the specimens, and writes as follows :— 
“‘T am obliged by your sending me the note of Mr. H. O. 
Forbes establishing his Boea Lawesti, and also showing me his fine 
ied specimens in the British Museum. r. Forbes is quite 
right in thinking it entirely different from his B. era I 
ether the 
by mein DC. Monogr. v. 8, p. 142, was B. Lawesii of ortiek or 
not, for a ee the specimen ye is temporarily mislaid. 
